The aim of the present study is to prepare a guide for the future
generations. It is commonplace among researchers that the files of the persecution of Jews
cannot be found in archival groups pertaining to the aim. (Maybe, under titles like
" the removal of Jews", "economic resources serving war purposes").
The preface and preamble of laws contain the ideology. Implementation was carried out by
way of daily administrative and professional activities. In the Ministry of the Interior
(Belügyminisztérium-BM), for example, mainly through departments VII/A and VII/B; in the
Ministry of Agriculture (Földmuvelésügyi Minisztérium - FM) by means of branch-offices
on site (like, for example, the Co-operative for Public Welfare - Közjóléti
Szövetkezet, the Fund for the Protection of Families - Családvédelmi Alap, etc.)

For the Ministry of Defence (Honvédelmi Minisztérium-HM) the Jewish
question simply meant the following: the source to obtain territory and supplies free of
charge; the employment of a military force needing no equipment; the availability of
"human manpower" for highly dangerous military tasks (fortifications,
mine-sweeping, etc.) The latter was sent mainly to operational and frontier areas.

In the Ministry of Defence departments 41-46 dealt with the deployment
of Jews in military and civilian forced labour. On the basis of a circular letter,
however, other official organs were also engaged in "matters of forced labour
servicemen." Gazsi, József conducted a special research in this question and named
the following departments as source: Elnöki (presidential) - matters of principle, -1/a -
organization, -1/b wartime organization, mobilization, - 1/om the fulfilment of
personal needs, exemptions, - 1/ny registration, the stocktaking of manpower, - 2/e
foodstuffs, - 2/r clothing, -3/b motorcars, -6/k the countervalue of work done by forced
labour servicemen, -11- military barracks, - 13- jurisdiction, -15 -codification,
foreigners, - 16 - the disposition of rabbis, - 18 - abuse of service, - 20 - gendarmerie,
-22/b- relief for disabled servicemen and their relatives, -22/v- losses, -23 legal
matters,1 The underlined files and subject groups are especially significant.

I would like to draw the special attention of future researchers to
certain bundles, as they are less acquainted with the contents behind contemporary terms:

Bundle No. 4333. HM 1941 eln. 13. p. Nos. 32027 and 32714.
Impeachment and disciplinary procedure because of a favour granted to a Jewish doctor.2
A long series of studies deal with the everyday life of forced labour. Nonetheless, we
refer to an illustrative diary. 3

All the documents referred to in notes 1, 2 and 3 are in the
Archives of Hungarian Military History. (Hadtörténeti Levéltár)

3

The diary of forced labour serviceman Hajdu, András, executed
by the German army as a hostage, renders an illustrative account of events from July 1942
to September 1942. Holocaust Füzetek 9. pp. 136-164.